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Message-Id: <1318454562-25291-2-git-send-email-jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:22:41 -0400
From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jaxboe@...ionio.com
Cc: tj@...nel.org, christophe@...ut.de, dm-devel@...hat.com,
msnitzer@...hat.com, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] blk-flush: move the queue kick into blk_insert_cloned_request
A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
a kernel with commit 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4
(block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
flush flags) applied. It turns out that an empty flush request
can be sent into blk_insert_flush. When the BUG_ON was fixed
to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall. The
reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
not require a flush. A better solution is to push the queue
kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.
This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
the issue reported.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html
Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@...ut.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
---
block/blk-core.c | 2 ++
block/blk-flush.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index d34433a..795154e 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1725,6 +1725,8 @@ int blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH;
add_acct_request(q, rq, where);
+ if (where == ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH)
+ __blk_run_queue(q);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
return 0;
diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 491eb30..0ff29c6 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq)
if ((policy & REQ_FSEQ_DATA) &&
!(policy & (REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH))) {
list_add_tail(&rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head);
- blk_run_queue_async(q);
return;
}
--
1.7.1
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